I heard this for the first time today on NPR’s Talk of the Nation (yes they played a song on a talk show) and chortled as Neal Conan referred to Ben Gibbard as “Dave Gibbard” and said the rocker grew up listening to Dave Niehaus describe Ichiro. Au contraire, Ben was an adult and already rocking like one when the Mariners acquired Ichiro. This is an interesting tune nonetheless: